Brothers One and All: Esprit de Corps in a Civil War Regiment

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Notes INTRODUCTION: This Little Band 1. “Farewell Address To the 154th Reg’t. N. Y. S. Volunteers,” unidentified newspaper clipping , courtesy of Cattaraugus County Memorial and Historical Museum, Little Valley, N.Y. The address is reprinted in Mark H. Dunkelman, Colonel Lewis D. Warner: An Appreciation (Portville, N.Y.: Portville Historical and Preservation Society, 1990), 21–4. 2. Dunkelman, Colonel Lewis D. Warner, 3, 17–9; “Death of Col. L. D. Warner,” Olean Morning Times, November 18, 1898, 1. 3. “Farewell Address To the 154th Reg’t. N. Y. S. Volunteers.” 4. Marcellus Warner Darling, Events and Comments of My Life (n.p., n.d.), unpaginated. 5. John Langhans to Julius Langhans, June 9, 1865. 6. Ellicottville Post, September 25, 1929, 1. 7. William Adams, ed., Historical Gazetteer and Biographical Memorial of Cattaraugus County, N.Y. (Syracuse: Lyman, Horton & Co., 1893), 594; Presidents, Soldiers, Statesmen (New York, Toledo and Chicago: H. H. Hardesty, 1899), 1501. 8. My definition of esprit de corps is from Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition (Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1995), 396. 9. Francis A. Lord, They Fought for the Union (New York: Bonanza Books, 1960), 59; E. B. Long with Barbara Long, The Civil War Day by Day: An Almanac, 1861–1865 (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1971), 716; Gerald J. Prokopowicz, All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861– 1862 (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2001), 5. 10. William T. Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman by Himself (1875; reprint, Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1957), 2:385. 11. Gustavus A. Weber, The Bureau of Pensions: Its History, Activities and Organization (1923; reprint, New York: AMS Press, 1974), 19. 12. Bell Irvin Wiley, The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy (1943; reprint, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1993), 138–9; Bell Irvin Wiley, The Life of Billy Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union (1952; reprint, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1993), 320. Works on the common soldier in the Civil War are enumerated and analyzed by William Garrett Piston, “Enlisted Soldiers,” in Steven E. Woodworth, ed., The American Civil War: A Handbook of Literature and Research (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996), 454–65; and Reid Mitchell, “‘Not the General but the Soldier’: The Study of Civil War Soldiers ,” in James M. McPherson and William J. Cooper, eds., Writing the Civil War: The Quest to Understand (Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1998), 81–95. 13. Lord, They Fought for the Union, 59. 14. Long, The Civil War Day by Day, 716; James I. Robertson Jr., Soldiers Blue and Gray (Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1988), 21; Randall C. Jimerson, The Private Civil 279 notes to pages 8–19 War: Popular Thought During the Sectional Conflict (Baton Rouge: Louisiana Univ. Press, 1988), 182. 15. Gerald F. Linderman, Embattled Courage: The Experience of Combat in the American Civil War (New York: Free Press, 1987), 234–6; Larry M. Logue, To Appomattox and Beyond: The Civil War Soldier in War and Peace (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1996), 42, 51. 16. Joseph T. Glatthaar, The March to the Sea and Beyond: Sherman’s Troops in the Savannah and Carolinas Campaigns (New York: New York Univ. Press, 1985), 30–3, 38, 183, 186; Larry J. Daniel, Soldiering in the Army of Tennessee: A Portrait of Life in a Confederate Army (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1991), 21, 23, 132. 17. Earl J. Hess, The Union Soldier in Battle: Enduring the Ordeal of Combat (Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 1997), 111, 117–22. 18. Joseph Allan Frank and George A. Reaves, “Seeing the Elephant”: Raw Recruits at the Battle of Shiloh (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1989), 2, 5–6, 20–2, 129–40; Joseph Allan Frank, With Ballot and Bayonet: The Political Socialization of American Civil War Soldiers (Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1998), 57, 165. 19. Reid Mitchell, Civil War Soldiers (New York: Viking, 1988), 17; Reid Mitchell, The Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Home (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1993), 19–37, 158; James M. McPherson, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1997), 82–9, 131. 20. Prokopowicz, All for the Regiment, passim. Quotes from pages 5, 6, 28, 34, 188. 21. Prokopowicz, All for the Regiment, 5. 22. Mark H. Dunkelman and Michael J. Winey, The Hardtack Regiment: An Illustrated History of the 154th Regiment, New York State...